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No. 451,738 Patented May 5, 1891.

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W. A. PEOK & R. A. BRIGHT. MACHINE FOR FORMING AND ROLLING CIGARS.

No. 451,738. Patented May 5,1891.

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\VALTER A. PECK AND RICHARD A. BRIGHT, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND; SAID BRIGHT ASSIGNOR TO SAID PECK.

MACHINE FOR FORMING AND ROLLING CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,738, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed April 19, 1890. $erial No. 348,692. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, IVALTER A. PEOK and RICHARD A. BRIGHT, citizens of the United States, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Forming and Rolling Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

()ur invention consists in the employment of two sets of forming-rolls which extend in opposite directions and lap by each other to form a rolling-chamber, whereby cigars having extremely-tapered head and tuck ends can be readily made.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a cigar-machine embodying our invention, the springs which serve to hold the rolls in closed position being removed. Fig. 2 represents an end eleation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section taken in the line at a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a vertical section taken in the line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section of atapering flexible roll, such as may be employed in carrying out our invention. 4 Fig. .6 represents a top view of the machine. Fig. 7 represents a vertical section taken in the line a? as of Fig. 6. Figs. 8 and 9 represent a vertical section, as in Fig. 7, and show different positions of the opening-rolls. Fig. 10 is a detail elevation from the front side of the machine, showing the forming-rolls which are attached to the fixed standards. Fig. 11 is a detail elevation from the front side of the machine, showing the forming-rolls which are attached to the movable jaws.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the bed-plate of the machine, which is provided with a longitudinallyextending raised portion 1). The foot h of the standards B B, which serve to support the stationary forming-rolls, is provided with a groove a, which fits over the raised portion 1) of the bed, and is also provided with aslot 0, adapted to receive the fastening-screw d, so that the standards B B, either one or both, may have a limited adjusting movement along the bedplate A.

The standards B B are each provided with the opening and closing jaws C O", respectively, the said jaws being connected to each other by means of the rod D, which is provided at its opposite ends with the adjustingnnts e e, by means of which the relative distance between the jaws O C can be changed as desired, and upon the rodD is secured the ironing-plate E, which serves to smooth out the binder or wrapper as it is being wound onto the inclosed mass of fillers or bunch.

The connected jaws C C are prevented from movement endwise of the machine by means of the heads F F, which are attached to the outer side of the standards B B, re-

spectively.

The jawsO O are provided with the cylindrically-formed fulcrums f f, which are adapted to rest and turn in the corresponding bearings g g in the standards B B, and the connected jaws O O are held in position in the bearings g g by means of the curved springs G G, which are attached to the foot h of the standards B B and act against the stud I-I,

attached to the arm 71 of the jaws O O.

The tapered forming-rolls 1 and 2 are supported by means of the standard B, and the roll 3 of the same set is supported by the accompanying jaw O at one end of the machine.

The rolls 4 and 6 are supported by the jaw O, and the roll 5 is supported by the accompanying standard B, the said rolls 4, 5, and 6 also forming a set, the ends of which are arranged to lap by the ends of the rolls of the opposite set 1, 2, and 3, as shown in the drawings, thus forming a rolling-chamber A, which can be reduced in diameter or tapered at either or both of its ends, as desired, and with our improved lapping arrangement of the sets of forming-rolls we can roll a bunch which is completely pointed at both ends and have the surface speed of the bunch throughout its whole length practically equal to that of the forming-rolls, which result has not been accomplished in any cigar-rolling machine heretofore constructed, so that on this account cigars of extreme tapering shape have heretofore been rolled by hand. The tapering rolling chamber A will also be adapted to roll loose fillers without a tendency to twist the same, so that the formation of properly-tapered cigar-bunches will be greatly facilitated.

The rolls. of each set are geared to rotate in the same direction, as in ordinary binding and wrapping machines, and in carryingout our invention rolls of any suitable form or construction may be employed, an example of the employment of the well-known spirally-constructed flexible rolls being shown in the drawings 1, 5, and 6 as a sufficient exemplification of the principle involvedin our invention.

The forming-rolls of the separate sets are driven simultaneouslyfrom the shaft Lwhich has its bearing in the standard 13, the said shaft being provided with a gear j, which engages with the intermediate gear 70, placed loosely upon the stud Z, the said intermediate gear being made to engage with the 1 gear m upon the shaft K, which has its bearings in the standards B B, and at the opposite end of the shaft K is placed the gear m, which engages with the intermediate gear is, the said gear being arranged to turn loosely upon a stud Z and engages with the gear j upon the shaft I, which shaft has its bearing in the standard B, and upon the inner ends of the oppositely-arranged shafts I I, which revolve in the same direction, are placed the gears n n, the gear at being made to engage with the gears 0 0 0 of the set of forming-rolls 1 2 3 and the gear at to engage with the gears 0 0' o of the opposite set of formingrolls 4: 5 6, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Connection may be made from the rod D, which connects the opposite jaws G O, by means of theconnecting-rods p p to arms q, attached to a rock-shaft J, which is to be held in suitable bearings, and from one of the arms (1 a connecting-rod 0" may extend to a t-readle, by means of which the movable forming-rolls of the opposite sets can be operated to open and close the rolling-chamber A, the downward movement of the rod 1" serving to open the chamber in an upward direction to receive the cigar-fillers or the cigar-bunch, as shown in Fig. 9, and the opposite upward movement of the rod r serving to open the chamberA in a downward direction to discharge the bunch, as shown in Fig. 8, the said chamber being maintained in a closed condition for rolling the fillers orbunch by means of the curved springs GG, as shown in Fig. 7, the opening-roll 3 being attached to and operated from the jaw 0, (shown in Figs.

7 and 8,) the accompanying rolls 4 and 6 being attached to and operated from the jaw C,

so that in any case at least one of each set of oppositely-directed lapping rolls willbemoved to open the rolling-chamber.

By adjusting the standards B B and their accompanying jaws G C nearer to or farther from each other the rolling-chamber A will be lengthened or shortened and changed as to its contour, so that the machine can be readily adjusted for making cigars of different lengths and various shapes.

We claim as our invention 7 1. The combination of two sets of formingrolls and driving mechanism therefor, said rolls extending in opposite directions from their driven ends and lapping by each other to form a rolling-chamber, substantially. as described.

2. The combination of two sets of formingrolls tapered at their forward ends and driving mechanism therefor, said rolls extending in opposite directions from their driven ends and lapping by each other to forln an oppositely-tapered rolling-chamber, substantially as described.

3. The combination of two sets of formingrolls extending in opposite directions from their driven ends and lapping by each other to form a rolling-chamber, driving mechanism for said rolls, and means for moving one or more rolls of each set to open the rollingchamber, substantially as described.

4. The combination of two sets of formingrolls tapered at their forward ends and lapping by each other to form a rolling-chamber, driving mechanism for said rolls, and means for adjusting each set of rolls lengthwise of the other to change the length or shape of the rolling-chamber, substantially as described.

WALTER A. PEOK. RICHARD A. BRIGHT.

WVitnesses:

W. H. THURSTON, S. SCHOLFIELD. 

